Orthodox Christians should write and paint and sing and dance. We should make
movies and television shows. We should make clothes and produce textiles as art
as well (the fullness of culture is itself too large to describe in a sentence,
a paragraph or even a book). And in all these activities, they will be
expressive of the fullness of our humanity without having to stick an icon on
everything to prove its Orthodoxy.
-- Father Stephen in Glory to God for All Things
This is a picture of Lionel, my Useless Blob.
He's really here, jumping up and down. To adopt your own Useless Blob, click on him.
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2006-03-21
Pardon my ranting.
Geert Wilders, leader of the Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom) has published his party program. In it, he proposes to revoke Article 1 of the Dutch Constitution: [1]
All persons in the Netherlands shall be treated equally in equal circumstances. Discrimination on the grounds of religion, belief, political opinion, race or sex or on other grounds whatsoever shall not be permitted.
2005-03-26
Writing the post about circumcision made me think about issues of privacy. An attitude (almost wrote ‘meme’ but that means something else in the blog world these days, I think) that’s becoming more and more prevalent in modern society, at least modern Dutch society, is that you don’t need privacy if you have nothing to hide. And, conversely, that if you want privacy it’s a sure sign that you have something to hide.
2005-02-22
“I can throw this in the paper recycling, right?” a kid asked when I was kneading bread dough, and when I saw what “this” was I almost said yes, but then I started thinking. Baking bread always does that to me. “No!” I said, “I’ll probably want to write about it.”
2004-06-14
I went to vote for Europe. I’ve skipped European elections in the past, but this time there was the little matter of the software patents (scroll down until you find the article with the picture of the demonstration, I don’t know how to link to something that doesn’t have an intro), and the fact that more and more European regulations affect me directly. And then there are the silly regulations, like this one that tries to treat mountain climbers like construction workers, and regulations about food and other pieces of culture that make all of the EU more and more the same. And the lack of opposition against over-the-top US air travel security; one reason that wherever else I go, I won’t go to the United States soon unless I absolutely have to.
